Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
Vcsh does support branches. That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will delete the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. That is most likely not what you want... Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity. ___ vcs-home mailing

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 06/26/2015 10:44 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: Vcsh does support branches. That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will delete the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. Is that a documented feature or an accidental one and might it change in future? That is most

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread John Whitley
Hi Sitaram, This is tricky. vcsh’s approach to overlaying fundamentally relies on having multiple git indexes available, one for each separate *working directory*. This implies a separate .git directory (or in vcsh’s case, a separate bare repo, e.g. “vim.git”) for each overlay. It doesn’t

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: That being said, if you switch from branch zsh to branch vim, you will delete the copies of your zsh config in $HOME. Is that a documented feature or an accidental one and might it change in future? This is a

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:07:37 +0530 Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, (I couldn't find this on a quick google search, or on github issues search) Would it be possible to use a single repo, with each configuration (vim, zsh, etc) being a *branch* in that repo, rather than each

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
Thanks for your reply! (thanks to madduck, RichiH, Antonio also). On 06/27/2015 12:17 AM, John Whitley wrote: Hi Sitaram, This is tricky. vcsh’s approach to overlaying fundamentally relies on having multiple git indexes available, one for each separate *working Yes; my mistake was asking

Re: vcsh: use branches instead of repos?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: [1]: https://github.com/sitaramc/gaf gaf expands to gitify arbitrary files; out of interest, where did you pick up the term gitify? Richard ___ vcs-home mailing list